All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be
found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
- Paul Kurtz

Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. - John Milton

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. - Edgar Allan Poe

It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once. - David Hume

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian
regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and
learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition. - Carl von Clausewitz